Initial pulse of Siberian Traps sills as the trigger of the end-Permian mass extinction

Autor: S. D. Burgess, J. D. Muirhead, S. A. Bowring
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00083-9
Popis: Author Summary Although the mass end-Permian extinction is linked to large igneous provinces, its trigger remains unclear. Here, the authors propose that the abrupt change from flood lavas to sills resulted in the heating of sediments and led to the release of large-scale greenhouse gases to drive the end-Permian extinction.
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